What Are Some of Your Favourite Things?
I've been teaching myself hand-drawn lettering since last summer - and I've gotten some good practice with chalkboard menus selling pâté at the 124th Grand Market in Edmonton. While I've been learning, I found a great lettering website "Hom Sweet Hom". The creator, Lauren Hom, has a challenge project called HOMwork. There ...
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Watercolour Creatures
January and February largely involved me curled up in my living room chair, watching all the old Planet Earth's on Netflix, while drawing and painting. I think my favourite is Blue Planet. Nope, wait a minute ... it's Frozen Planet. THEY ARE ALL SO GOOD! Here are some of the illustrations from January/February and my ...
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Critical Linking: Urban Food Systems and Gardening
I discovered Ron Finley through a Lucky Peach article (RIP, you beautiful food magazine). And it got me wanting to garden. I had dabbled here and there but now I wanted to take it seriously. I spend a lot time thinking about food, reading about food, and talking about food. But not a lot of time actually growing my ...
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Hiking Mt. Bourgeau
In the depths of a cold snap this January, Billy and I started planning our hiking season for this summer. Last summer, we didn't get out much since we were focused on working - he started a new job and we launched a new small business. From this experience, I learned that the majority of Edmontonians are ALL FUN, NO WORK ...
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Illustrated Book Review: Sapiens
I've been holding on to some of my comic/illustration work for a long time. Like, 2 years. Now, I'm starting to go through some of my sketchbooks and picking some to share. Hopefully, there will be some sign of progress over time *insert cry-laugh emoji* A couple years ago, Billy and I listened to the audiobook of Sapiens ...
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Comic – Challenges in Podcasting
Podcasts are tough, man. I'm working on the third season of my podcast, Migration Patterns. In all honestly, it was pretty hard going for the past 4 months but thankfully, the process is picking up again. This summer was dark days for the podcast and my feelings around it. So much so, I made a comic about it and I've ...
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People I met in Japan – Shigeru
A short little comic about a quiet, lovely man I met in a yakitori restaurant in Tokyo. We chatted together for a couple of hours and he bought us a couple of shots of sake. We were all sitting at the counter and shared a cheers. He's seemed reserved at first but once he opened up, he was fascinating to talk ...
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